Hackers and the contested ontology of cyberspace

New Media and Society

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 195-217

  Nissenbaum, Helen ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethics and information technology; Free software; Hacking cracking; Intellectual property; Internet; Linux; Open source; Political protest

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842435111     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444804041445     Document Type: Review

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